Huawei proposes the evolution direction of the storage industry in the YB data era

On May 24th, Huawei announced at the 2023 Innovation Data Infrastructure Forum that the data storage industry is ushering in the YB data era. While continuously pursuing high capacity and performance, data storage also needs to build new data paradigms, intelligent data weaving, and endogenous data resilience to help enterprises unleash massive data value and enable the rapid development of the data storage industry

On May 24th, Huawei announced at the 2023 Innovation Data Infrastructure Forum that the data storage industry is ushering in the YB data era. While continuously pursuing high capacity and performance, data storage also needs to build new data paradigms, intelligent data weaving, and endogenous data resilience to help enterprises unleash massive data value and enable the rapid development of the data storage industry.

Zhou Yuefeng, Vice President of Huawei and President of Data Storage Product Line, pointed out that throughout the global data storage industry, the shipping capacity of the top five external storage manufacturers in 2022 was three times that of 2012, which is far from enough compared to the current YB data era. Huawei predicts that this number will grow tenfold by 2032, exceeding 100EB. While continuously pursuing high capacity and performance, data storage also requires the construction of new data paradigms, intelligent data weaving, and endogenous data resilience to help enterprises unleash massive data value and enable the rapid development of the data storage industry.

Huawei believes that with the deepening of the Digital transformation, the data storage industry is ushering in tremendous reform and development opportunities. Firstly, data applications are changing rapidly, with 56% of enterprises deploying AI applications; At the same time, 96% of enterprises plan to build cloud native applications. Secondly, the data has exploded. 80% of the new data is unstructured data, with a compound annual growth rate of 38%. Finally, the challenge of data resilience is becoming increasingly severe, with ransomware variants rapidly increasing by 98% year-on-year, and 14.1% of enterprises experiencing ransomware attacks cannot recover their data.

Unstructured data is entering the enterprise production decision-making system. Real time access makes the data hot. The read/write bandwidth and IO access efficiency of distributed storage need to be improved by an order of magnitude. At the same time, distributed storage needs systematic innovation in software, algorithm and hardware to meet the requirements of massive unstructured data for extreme cost-effectiveness. In addition, the growth of data scale brings serious data gravity issues, requiring the construction of intelligent data weaving capabilities to achieve global unified data views and scheduling across systems, regions, and clouds.

Data security threats are changing from natural disasters and physical damage to blackmail software and other attacks. Enterprises need to move from passive response to Active Defense to improve data resilience. The increase of zero-day and the huge losses caused by the irrecoverable data make the enterprise data security system composed of network, application and host security insufficient to meet the latest data resilience requirements of enterprises. Data storage is becoming the last line of defense for safeguarding data security, and more data resilience capabilities will be embedded in data storage products, such as ransomware detection, data encryption, secure snapshots, and AirGap isolation zone recovery features.

Zhou Yuefeng pointed out that Huawei Data Storage has grown together with customers and partners, providing products and solutions. Among them, OceanStorDorado full flash storage and OceanStorPacific distributed storage have both won the 2023PartnerPeerInsights "Customer Choice". (Quiet)